The week in travel: June 24-29, 2013

The sheer rock face of an abandoned quarry in China is to be transformed into
a £345-million, five-star Intercontinental hotel.

Its unusual centrepiece will be a 100-metre-high waterfall that will spill
from the hotel roof down to an atrium on the ground floor and be visible
from bedroom windows. Two of the hotel’s 19 storeys with be submerged.

The resort is based in the Songjiang district, near Shanghai. British design
company Atkins is behind the build and intends to make the property as green
as possible.

The hotel is expected to open in late 2014 at the earliest, with rooms costing
around £200 a night.